This engaging and highly readable book offers you guidance for your spiritual journey. Sharing stories from her personal life as a spiritual seeker and from her professional career as a retreat leader, spiritual director and teacher, Reverend Jane Vennard illustrates the joys and frustrations of spiritual practice, offers insights from various religious traditions, and provides step-by-step exercises and meditations to help you wake up and embrace life.

Rev. Jane E. Vennard, a popular teacher on prayer and spiritual practice, offers lectures and leads retreats in ecumenical settings in the United States, Canada and Australia. She is the author of six books on prayer and a long-time active member of Spiritual Directors International. She is ordained in the United Church of Christ to a ministry of teaching and spiritual direction.
Rami Shapirois a renowned teacher of spirituality across faith traditions and a noted theologian. He is author of the award-winning The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness: Preparing to Practice and RecoveryThe Sacred Art: The Twelve Steps as Spiritual Practice, among other books.